Would morals change today if we banned religion.?

Question

If tomorrow the world banned all religions do you think that are morals would change. Would we start thinking other things are right that are wrong today. If so what would happen to the laws. Would the world end as we know it? Could there be rules?

Answer 1

You mean after you will all have killed each other in a giant bloodbath?

Answer 2

I think this type of question is pointless to think about. Everything is interconnected - religion, culture, ethics, morality, society, etc etc. We could never really "ban religion" in the first place. Where this has been attempted, it has usually only added a certain validity - the validity of the persecuted - to religion. If people are against something, other people get the idea that there must be something to it. That's actually how Christianity began - with the "martyrs." Nowadays we have the Islamic jihadists - same thing. I don't know what the solution is, but it's not in the "banning" of religion.

Answer 3

That answer is too complicated to say just 'yes' or 'no'.

I don't believe religion is the only source of morals, as some religious people seem to believe. Religious leaders often take the attitude that one can't be moral without religion. Usually they just hint at it, use code words, but sometimes they'll come right out and say it. As if atheists had no consciences at all! 8^O

OTOH, the only places where they -have- outlawed religion, or used the power of govt. to control and/or discourage religion, the reason they did it was to substitute a political 'theology' that was just as bad as religion or worse. Places like the USSR, Cuba, and China.

Some American Christians make the accusation that in this country the govt. is punishing -them- for being religious by not allowing prayer in schools, etc. And that by doing so the govt. is pushing a 'secular religion'. This is hogwash, made up by politicians, not religious leaders, deliberately calculated to confuse the issue.

The current political culture makes it difficult for theists and atheists alike to understand the twin concepts of 'freedom of religion' and 'freedom -from- religion'.

Answer 4

Your question, of course, lacks validity. One, 'the world' is not apt to ever ban religion, and certainly not in the countries where democracy are the underpinnings. Two, the laws in, say, the USA seem to reflect religious points-of-view sometimes but in the sudden absence of religion rape, murder, child abuse, assault, stealing, etc., would continue to be city, county, or state laws. If by 'morals' you mean sex among consenting adults, in most of the civilized states the citizens, not the government, not religion, are bringing these to an end. A love of privacy and individual freedom are not unimportant to intelligent Americans. I'm not sure where you've been living over the span of your adult life, but the 'rules' of which you speak are matters for elected lawmakers who represent the people and not for Protestant preachers whose politics drift dangerously toward those of Attila the Hun.

Answer 5

Religion was created by man to fill in the blanks for the questions he couldn't answer and to supply a consequence to those who made life difficult in a community.

Man still doesn't have all the answers, but we do have laws (rules), processes, and consequences that exist independently outside religion. This non-religious system allows us to live together more peacefully.

If religion was banned, it would still exist. If for some reason it disappeared, we'd still have our laws and social conscience. The system might change a bit if religion no longer existed, but not necessarily for the worse.

Answer 6

It isn't too hard to figure that one out.
Just look carefully at the decline of morality in our society...it does seem to have a connection to the decline of faith.
But I'm not too worried about any ban on religion. There have been bans on Christianity before, and we have lived through them. I wouldn't like it, but it wouldn't change my faith one whit.
There might be a ban on Bibles, or a ban on churches, or a ban on public prayer...but how do you ban what is in a person's heart and mind? How do you keep parents from teaching their children their own beliefs?
You can't.
God bless you!!

Answer 7

Romans 2:14-16 (The Message Version)
14-16When outsiders who have never heard of God's law follow it more or less by instinct, they confirm its truth by their obedience. They show that God's law is not something alien, imposed on us from without, but woven into the very fabric of our creation. There is something deep within them that echoes God's yes and no, right and wrong. Their response to God's yes and no will become public knowledge on the day God makes his final decision about every man and woman.

God wrote his law (purpose and will for our lives) on our hearts. Take all the religions away in the world and it still will not change that.

Answer 8

there would be complete Anarchy! we would all kill each other after a few hours. yes, the world would end as we know it. and besides, it would be impossible to ban religion because there will always be people that pursue it. Take China for instance, they are not allowed to practice any other religion except Buddhism i think, but there are a few people who still practice Christianity and other religions. I would practice Christianity even though it was banned

Answer 9

differences in morality is a huge concern and that i've got self belief its because of the fact human beings have permit little issues slip. An occasion is in outfits. a trifling 50 years in the past wearing a mini skirt replaced into unthinkable and there replaced into a perfect length for the skirts to be and if it replaced into interior of those standards it could be ethical. yet over the years some human beings desperate "we will not positioned on skirts to our socks yet fairly to our knees" and then over greater time knee length replaced into appropriate and it basically have been given worse and worse. human beings have been allowed to ruin out with small issues and that i recognize outfits isn't a considerable concern. however an identical concept applies someplace else as in premarital relationships, which interior the previous, replaced into between the main rebellious acts you could actually desire to accomplish.. replace in morals has resulted to hundreds of toddlers getting into sexual relationships before the age of 15 and this age is reducing over the years. If the international keeps to stay with this course all morals will basically circulate out the window and something would be appropriate and any new immoral element will rely as something exciting and exciting to objective

Answer 10

I think some people would change their morals, but for the most part I do not believe morals are driven by religion. So long story short NO

Answer 11

The world would have a whole lot less hate without idiotic religions making followers feel superior to others who believe differently than they do.

Unless your religion controls your common sense, the morals would not change.